Just noticed that my latest Marriott Boundless card referral is the new FIVE 50K Free Night Certificates, so adding to the Google Sheet. Check your links to people - that’s a good one, whether doing a P1 to P2 (spouse etc) referral or having someone else here use it. 
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Heads up to any who might be thinking of getting one or is reaching their 24 month window since earning the last sign up bonus (SUB).
Increased bonus offer for both Disney Visa cards!
Playing the 2 Player game with referrals, that’s $1,000 in Disney Rewards and statement credits.
Nice if you have a trip in your future and not playing the bigger points game.
For anyone who has their referral links in the spreadsheet, might be worth checking if yours needs to be updated there to see this new bonus. (I received my latest link via email, but you can use the Chase Catch-All site to generate a new one too.)
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We used this bonus last month to get DH his first Disney card…begrudgingly 
Good reminder on the links. I realized mine weren’t working earlier this week.
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Thank you! I’ve been considering the Disney Visa for the last couple years. Seems like a good time to jump in. I used your referral link fyi.
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Well thank you very much! I will raise multiple Dole Whips in your honor. 
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Bumping this thread to report that Chase Sapphire cards now have an elevated 75K sign up bonus (SUB) AND the personal referral links can now be refreshed to have it as well.
So, if you have a P2 (spouse, friend, family) who wants to start playing the larger points game, the Sapphire Preferred card at $95 annual fee is the de facto / no brainer entry point into the Chase ecosystem. (Plus, the Sapphire Preferred gives you an annual $50 travel credit when booking a hotel through their portal, so the net annual cost is $50 even if you ignore the value of other benefits of the card.)
If you need to refresh your own or P2’s referral link for the Sapphire, use the Chase Catch-all form.
Check out links in the shared Google sheet here.
If you have a Sapphire and would like another bonus, it might be possible!
Check out my Advanced Tactic section in this post in my Credit Rewards General Thread.
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For anyone who follows this thread that has links in the spreadsheet - Quite a few links there are expired now.
If you haven’t updated them in the last 90 days or less and/or the bank has flipped the offer one or more times since you posted the link, chances are you need to refresh the referral to get a new link and then update in the sheet.
I see a few old Capital One or other referrals out there from 2023 that are still active - but Amex and Chase offers do time out a few times a year. Even some of the more recently added Disney Visa links are expired now since the offer for that card reverted back to the lower bonuses.
New Method in Sheet to Highlight Expired Links
I started to mark the referral link cells as “expired” as a few were set already - but then I thought that might make it un-obvious which link was there before. So, rather than change the links, I added a column at left with a checkbox and set up some formatting so that checking the box grays out the row.
That way, if someone comes back to update their links, they can just re-use the same row and un-check the box.
To make it easier for people to find the active links, I’ve sorted the sheet so that the expired ones are at the bottom. I also checked every referral and set the checkbox on the expired or ones that say “Not Available” when clicked.
| BTW: Some links show a “Not Available” pop up when the page loads. If you close the popup, the application page might still be there. |
BUT - I read that pop up as “The REFERRAL you clicked is DEAD, but you can apply without using a referral link.” If it were me, I’d find someone else’s active referral and try to use that so at least someone else benefits from the application.
However, at least one of the Southwest card links says unavailable, then ALSO says “you have been referred” - so that scenario is unclear. I SUSPECT but have no data to back it up, that the referral is actually dead in that instance as well. I would personally refresh my link and update the sheet in that case if it were my referral.
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I think mine was still active but I went ahead and updated anyway.
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@ParkRanger when you are home and settled let me know. I want to pick your brain about United Points. I see you have a referral link in the spreadsheet. Got 9 people traveling next year for a family vacation. United may be the best flight options to 1 of the contenders. But I’m super unfamiliar with them.
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Pick away! 
I don’t keep many non-free cards, but this is one of them. I’m 40 minutes from Newark airport which is a United hub. With this card, I mostly take advantage of the free checked bags. Other perks that are sometimes valuable: the credit for the global entry fee, the 2 free day passes to a United lounge, early boarding (when I don’t check a bag—otherwise I board as late as possible!).
(Just updated my referral links.)
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I did not get my Disney rewards card in the mail before our trip. Does anyone know if I can go to the Disney Visa kiosk in MK to get the rewards dollars card instead?
Years ago I remember that was possible but I haven’t heard any data points on that in a long time. No reason to believe it isn’t possible anymore so worth a shot!
The only catch is that you can’t transfer the money from one card to another. They can issue you a card but you’ll only be able to access whatever rewards dollars you have still in your account. Whatever amount you loaded onto the card you had sent to you will stay on that card.
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We starting to plan our big June 2025 family vacation and one of the places on the short list is Woodloch Pines Resort in Hawley, PA. The best options for direct flight from MSY are into Philadelphia (AA) or Newark (United). We will have 9 people so it would be nice for my sister and I to try to book all the flights with points. I’m considering Philadelphia only because I would like an AA rewards card since I’ve heard great things about AA international travel and points value. But Newark is closer to our destination. So that’s a major plus.
I guess my main questions are about United service and points value. Do you find United flights and servic3 on par with, say Delta or American? Like some credit cards, do the United cards run periodic offers to get a higher point value for certain type of spending? Do you find the points price for a flight are a good value for what you would pay in cash? We can maybe get our mom to do a card. we could definitely pay for all the flights with points then (estimated 155-185k pts round trip for all).
Extra points if your familiar with Woodloch Pines Resort.
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Thinking if the treat the un-arrived card as lost, GS might be able to replace it in full.
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I’m afraid I don’t have much wisdom to offer on these questions.
I’ve mostly flown United in recent years. Took one flight to MCO on Delta last year, roundtrip from LGA, and it was indistinguishable from United except I got free wifi on Delta (IIRC). Can’t remember the last time I flew American.
I don’t tend to use my United card for spending except on flights.
I haven’t paid much attention to the miles-vs-cash value as we’ve only used miles once recently, to Las Vegas. (We haven’t banked many miles since the SUB.) I do remember the cash price was high and the miles option seemed reasonable.
Sorry, wish I could be of more help!
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This is helpful actually. I have no basis of knowledge for United. I’m not picky for flights. But I was so disappointed with Frontier all around. I just wasn’t sure if United is a “budget” airline like that.
Thank you! We obviously have some time. And when you sign up for a United account you can see the cost for dollars and points so I plan to do some tracking the next few weeks.
We can make the subs. With 3 cards we’d get 150k points. And you can pay the difference with cash- so United looks attractive from that angle. And the premium seats aren’t that much more…
I wonder if United lets you rebook if the points price goes down with no penalty (like Southwest).
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And the link now works so if we choose to go fhe United route, Ill make sure to tap on through.
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I believe you can cancel a flight and the miles just go back into your account. Like most airlines, they switched to a “no change fees” policy (except for Basic Economy, which is cash only) during the pandemic. I have yet to test this myself, but probably will be doing so when I book my trip to MCO for this December.
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That would be great, thanks!
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